Hester Peirce
Hester Maria Peirce is an American lawyer who serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She previously served as the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Peirce was confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2017 to fill a Republican vacancy on the SEC. She was sworn in on January 11, 2018, for a term ending in 2020, and her second term expires in 2025. Peirce is a former staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and of the SEC. In 2016, she was nominated by President Barack Obama for Commissioner on the SEC, but the United States Senate did not act on her nomination.
Some of the key events about Hester Peirce
- 1993Graduated magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with a B.A. in Economics
- 1997Earned her J.D. from Yale Law School
- 2004Joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a staff attorney in the Division of Investment Management
- 2008Became counsel to SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins
- 2012Joined the Mercatus Center at George Mason University as a senior research fellow
- 2014Co-authored the book "Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed"
- 2018Nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as an SEC Commissioner
- 2018Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as an SEC Commissioner
- 2018Dissented from the SEC's decision to reject a Bitcoin ETF proposal, arguing for more innovation-friendly regulation
- 2019Criticized the SEC's $100 million settlement with Block.one as potentially stifling innovation
- 2020Delivered a speech titled "Atomic Trading" advocating for innovation in financial markets
- 2020Opposed the SEC's adoption of stricter regulations on proxy advisory firms
- 2021Proposed a safe harbor for cryptocurrency token sales to promote innovation in the blockchain space
- 2021Voted against the SEC's approval of Nasdaq's board diversity rules
- 2022Dissented from the SEC's proposal to enhance climate-related disclosures for public companies
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